crontab-manager

What problem does it solve?

Manually managing cron jobs can be error-prone, leading to incorrect schedules, missing logs, or forgotten tasks, which impacts system maintenance and automation reliability. This Skill ensures your scheduled tasks are always correct and well-documented.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Add Scheduled Tasks: Helps you define new cron jobs with correct syntax, ensuring absolute paths for commands and proper logging, preventing common execution failures.
• Remove & Update Tasks: Safely modifies or deletes existing cron entries in your config/crontab file with user confirmation, maintaining a clean and current schedule.
• Information & Guidance: Provides clear explanations of cron syntax, calculates next run times for tasks, and offers best practices for scheduling and system load management.
• Use Case: You need to schedule a weekly database backup every Sunday at 3 AM. Use this Skill to correctly add the cron entry to your dotfiles, ensuring proper logging and absolute paths without manual syntax errors, so you can set it and forget it.

Quick Start

Schedule a daily cleanup script to run at midnight.